Li Qingan understood that inflation, Tang Dynasty-style inflation, there were not many silver dollars in the past, and I couldn't feel it. But since he wiped out the Tubo army in Tocharo, hundreds of thousands of Tubo prisoners of war worked as laborers in silver mines, making only five silver mines in Anxi expand to thirteen silver mines. The mint silver dollars doubled and flowed into the Central Plains continuously. At the same time, King Li Lin of Wu occupied Jiangnan, causing materials from Jiangnan to be transported in Chang'an, and a large number of commodities were transported to the West through trade. Although they received real money and silver, there were more money and fewer physical goods. How could there be no inflation?

He actually thought about this problem before, but he didn't experience it personally and could not feel it. Now he has begun to experience the seriousness of the problem.

Li Qingan thought for a while and then took the shop's shop's shop to a room next to him. The shop broke free from his hand and rubbed his wrist that was so painful that he complained: "Businessman, if you have time, go buy rice as soon as possible! Our shopkeeper said that we will start preparing New Year's goods in a few days, and the rice price will increase by at least another 200 cents. Smart merchants are rushing to buy it!"

Li Qingan took out a purse, took out a stack of silver dollars from it, which was at least seven or eight yuan, held it in his palm and smiled, "I'll ask you a few words. If you tell the truth, the money will belong to you."

The guy was moved. Now that the prices are soaring, his life is also sad. These seven or eight silver dollars are enough to make him live a good life. He immediately smiled and said, "Just ask, I will tell the truth."

"Okay! Let me ask you first, how much money do you earn in a month?"

"Eight Points!"

The guy didn't blink and blurted out, "I earned six guan last year, but because of the price increase, the shopkeeper saw that I worked hard, so he added two more guan."

“Is it enough?”

"I am enough by myself, but I still have to support myself. I have elderly parents and young children. There is no land at home. The family of seven people all expect me to live with eight guan coins. I can buy two guan coins of rice. I can't buy two guan coins of rice during the Chinese New Year. However, our family only needs five dou of rice per month. The rest of the food is enough to buy cloth to make clothes, food, food, oil and salt, and a meal of meat a month. Life is tight."

Li Qingan secretly calculated that a ninth-rank official had a monthly salary, food, miscellaneous income of only eight jin of coins. They also had to support their families and had to exchange rituals among their colleagues. The money was not enough. Fortunately, at the beginning of this year, he made up for the rice that had been owed for several years, and the officials could still support it. I am afraid that by next year, most low-rank officials would be caught. If An Lushan also imitated him and gave additional money to these officials, half of them would say good things about An Lushan. These are just officials, and there are a large number of officials, without rice, and their monthly salary is about five or six jin of coins. It is easy to imagine how difficult their lives are.

Li Qingan began to realize the seriousness of the problem, and he asked again: "I heard that you Li Qingan is quite capable? How could you be so embarrassed?"

"capable?"

The guy sneered, "Yes, he is so capable, he can do it so much that the people are resentful. No one in Chang'an won't scold him."

"Hey! Don't talk nonsense!" Li Rong next to him glared at him fiercely.

"Delise!"

Li Qingan dragged his voice and looked at her dissatisfiedly. Li Rong didn't dare to say anything. Li Qingan smiled and comforted the guy and said, "I just came from Anxi. The people in Anxi are grateful to Li Qingan, so she doesn't like others to say bad things about Li Qingan. Don't care, keep saying it."

As he said that, he put four silver dollars into the guy's hand. After buying the silver dollars, the guy felt at ease and continued: "Actually, I didn't mean to say bad things about him. I just told the truth. Do you know what people in Chang'an call Li Qing'an?"

"What?"

"Li Qiandou!"

"What... Li Qiandou?" Li Qingan didn't quite understand.

"That is to say, if he ascends the throne and becomes the emperor, he will be a thousand-month-month-month-month-month-month-month-month-month-month-month-month-month-month-month-month-month-month-month-month-month-month-month-month-month-month-month-month-month-month-month-month-month-month-month-month-month-month-month-month-month-month-month-month-month-month-month-month-month-month-month-month-month-month-month-month-month-month-month-month-month-month-month-month-month-month-month-month-month-month-month-month-month-month-month-month

Li Qingan was speechless, he felt a little sad. He never expected that the people of the Tang Dynasty hated him like this. It was not that simple to govern the world!

At this time, Mingzhu stepped forward and said, "I think this is unfair. If it weren't for General Li, An Lushan would have entered Beijing long ago. The people of Hebei would not know how many deaths would be. There is also Tubo. Our century-old confidant troubles of our Tang Dynasty were also solved by General Li. Why don't everyone think about it at all!"

Mingzhu lives in the upper class and never contacts the lower class people. When she heard her friend say this, she couldn't help but complain for Li Qing'an.

The guy also smiled bitterly and said, "Girl, General Li actually has benefits. Everyone knows that, but the prices have risen so fiercely, everyone's wages have only increased a little. Of course, the rich don't care. They praise him. But we flat-headed people are almost unable to afford to eat now. They live a wealthy life last year, but this year it has become extremely poor. Last year, they live poorly, and this year they have to beg for food. You go to the streets to check it out at night. There are more and more people working in night markets. Isn't every household living a hard life? As long as we can afford to eat, nothing else matters. But some people say that the price of grain in Youzhou is only 80 cents per bullion. What do you think?"

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After leaving the "Huhang Old Store", Li Qing'an went to other rice shops and meat shops next to him. The situation was completely true. As the guys and merchants said, the price of grain increased, and the meat price also increased. It turned out to be 80 cents, but now it is 200 cents. This is because Anxi transported a large amount of beef and mutton, otherwise the price of meat would have risen to the sky long ago, and these were all wholesale prices. When they arrived at the market and the dining table, they didn't know what the price was. No wonder the people scolded him Li Qiandou.

At this time, Li Qingan no longer had the intention to continue shopping, so he said to Mingzhu: "Please help me buy Duoduo's birthday gift! I won't go."

He said to Li Rong again: "You should accompany Mingzhu! I will enter the court immediately."

Mingzhu could understand Li Qing'an's mood, so she nodded and said, "Brother-in-law, go back! I'll buy things for Duoduo, I know what she likes. I'll ask you more about the prices of essential daily necessities and make a list for you."

Seeing that she was understanding and liked her, Li Qingan patted her hand and smiled, "Okay! Thank you."

Li Qingan said goodbye to them, then turned over a horse, and under the escort of eighteen confidants, he quickly ran towards Rehaju.

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One hour later, the Zhengshi Hall held an emergency meeting at the request of Li Qing'an, including six prime ministers and five important officials of the Zhengshi Hall, as well as ministers, doctors, ministers and ministers from various ministries, ministers and ministers from various temple supervisors, Shaoqing Orders, Censors and Chief Censors, etc. Nearly a hundred people gathered at the Secretariat Conference to attend the meeting.

The new right prime minister was just elected here yesterday, and today an enlarged meeting was held again. Except for a few prime ministers such as Zhang Yun who received Li Qing'an's prior notice, the rest were confused. There were a lot of discussion in the conference hall, and everyone speculated whether Li Qing'an was going to launch a full-scale war against An Lushan. It is very likely that although Guo Ziyi lost, Li Guangbi's army entered Hebei. He also heard that An Lushan's forage warehouse was burned and the cavalry suffered huge losses, which was a good opportunity to wipe out An Lushan.

At this time, Li Qing'an, Zhang Yun and Cui Ning quickly walked into the conference hall from the side door. Li Qing'an was not wearing a military uniform, but was wearing a first-class python uniform and a gauze hat. The same dress as the ministers were dressed the same. Pei Min picked up the small iron hammer on the table and gently knocked the bell. With a crisp sound of "Dang!", the hall suddenly became quiet.

The conference hall was in a fan-shaped structure, and the ministers gradually sat backward according to their grades. At the front were six ministers of the State Council. Li Qing'an stood in front, a bit like the podium of later generations. This was a temporary arrangement. He announced to everyone about a major event today.

The conference hall was very quiet. Li Qing'an walked up to the front desk, looked at everyone, and said slowly: "This morning, I went to Xishi. This is my first time in nearly a year. The reason is very simple. Because I wanted to buy a birthday gift for my daughter, I wanted to buy it myself, but I went to the rice shop in Xishi and learned some facts that I couldn't believe."

Li Qing'an raised a bag of rice high, "This is a dou of rice. A family of five can eat it for about eight days. Can anyone tell me how much this dou of rice costs now?"

All the ministers looked at each other. They all had rice, and they usually didn't go to the market to buy rice. At this time, Yan Zhenqing stood up and bowed and said, "I asked the servants in two months, and they cost about 300 cents, but I don't know now."

"Mr. Yan said it roughly well. It was indeed three hundred documents two months ago."

Speaking of this, Li Qing'an's voice suddenly became higher and he said loudly: "But it's not now. Now it's four hundred cigarettes, and a bucket of rice will be 400 cigars. In a few days, the New Year's goods will be purchased. At that time, a bucket of rice will be sold for 600 cigars, and it's only 80 cigars at the beginning of the year. But now the rice price is already so high. I wonder if any of you ministers can't afford to eat?"

The hall was silent and quiet. At this time, everyone understood that Li Qing'an was not trying to hit An Lushan at a meeting, but to ask about the prices. In fact, everyone knew that prices were rising sharply, but accordingly, everyone had more money in their hands, and there was more money, and of course prices rose. This was normal. Ten days ago, the Political Affairs Hall held a special meeting to discuss the increase in salary for officials and officials. Before the discussion came out, Pei Zunqing was assassinated.

At this time, Yan Zhenqing stood up and said, "Your Highness! The price increase is mainly from April. At that time, the imperial court made up for all the officials' years of debts, which caused a surge in prices. But we believe that this is just an inducement. The real reason is that the influx of silver dollars in Anxi, and the King of Wu seizures the Jianghuai River, which caused the Jiangnan canal transportation, and the goods imported into Chang'an were greatly reduced. There was too much money and less goods, so of course the prices would rise sharply...."

Yan Zhenqing talked loudly and said it very sharply. When it comes to the root of the sentence, many people were worried about him. Everyone knows that the large amount of silver input in Anxi was the main reason, and the suspension of Jiangnan canal transportation was related to Li Qing'an's delay in dealing with the King of Wu. Li Qing'an was responsible for speaking, but no one dared to say this, but Yan Zhenqing dared to say it bluntly.

Yan Zhenqing said at the end: "Shangshu Zhang and I jointly submitted a memorial ten days ago, and we wanted to open a regular warehouse to settle the grain prices before purchasing New Year's goods. Unfortunately, Pei Xiangguo was assassinated, and this matter was delayed and the Political Affairs Hall has not discussed it yet."

Li Qing'an sighed and said, "I only realized that the people of the Tang Dynasty called me Li Qiandou. Today I held an emergency meeting. I only have three things to announce. First, I will immediately open a Changguan warehouse to stabilize the price of grain. Taifu Temple must reduce the price of grain to 100% within three days. There is no limit on the amount of grain released. As for the crackdown on the unscrupulous grain merchants in the garage, the inner guards will be responsible; Second, I suggest that the Political Affairs Hall appoint Cui Ning, the Minister of the Ministry of Justice, as the Jianghuai Grain Transportation Envoy and the Jiangnan East Observation Envoy, who is fully responsible for the river channel transportation; Third, I will personally lead a hundred thousand troops to attack Li Lin in Jiangnan and end the Jianghuai Battle before the spring tomorrow."

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Chapter completed!